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let fome Perfon better verfed in thefe Things, and more Scene opens, of which it will be impoffible to give out 
capable of treating this Subjed arife, and fet it in its true Judgment immediately, and as impoffible to think of 
Point of Light. For this is the critical Time, the Seafon executing thofe Schemes then, that are eafy as well as 
when the Friends of Trade and the Plantations ffiould pradicable now^ 
exert themfelves before a Peace takes Place, and a hew 
S E C T I O N XX. 
The Htfiory of the British Colonies m America, from the Revolution to the Death of 
his late Majefy King George L 
I. 'The Artifices of the Yvtnoh, under the Reigji of James II. defeated by the Probity of Colonel Dun-^" 
gan, Governor ^New York. 2. The Indians, by their Infigation, and with their Affiance^ attack the 
People of New England m 1690, and are repulfed with Lofs. 3. An Account of Sir William Phipps’ i 
unfortujiate Expedition againft Quebec. 4. ^he Jlfiory oj the Indian War continued to its Clofe, with 
other remarkable Occurrences, 5. The Society for the Propagation of the Gofpel incorporated by King WiL 
Ham III. and the many Advantages flowing from that excellent Eflablifloment. 6. The Affairs of the 
Britidi Colonies^ during the Reign of ^leen Anne, briejly co?ifldered. 7. The unfortunate Expedition againfl 
Canada, under General Hill and Sir Hovenden Walker. 8. The Methods taken by the French the 
Peneflt of their own Commerce^ at the Expence of ours to the Treaty of Utrecht. 9. A?t Account of his 
Grace the Duke of Montague ’r Scheme for fettling the Iflands of Lucia and St. Vincent. 10. The 
Iliflory oJ the Expedition for that Purpofe^ under Captain Uring, and his Relation of its Mifcarriage, 
1 1. Colonel Braithwaite’r Report of his being forced to abandon the Settlement of^t. Vincent. 12. The in- 
dubitable Title of the Crown of Great Britain to thofe Iflands ajj'erted, and the Importance of maintaining 
it demonflrated. 13. Remarks and Obfervations on the mofl remarkable Pafldges in the foregoing SeBion, 
I T is generally agreed, that the very word: Part of 
King James’^ Government was the Inclination that he 
had to French Counfcls, and his falling too readily into 
French Meafures, which is the more extraordinary in Mat- 
ters relating to Commerce ; becaufe never any Prince 
underftood them better than King James, It mud there- 
fore have been his violent Zeal for promoting the Popijh 
Caufe, that induced him to go the Lengths he did, in 
Favour of France ; contrary mod certainly to the Intered 
of this Nation, as he would have feen fooner than any 
tody, if that Zeal of his had not hindered him. But 
from hence we fee the Difference between EngUJh and 
French Popery. Our deluded Prince, though he under- 
ftood Trade, was inclined to facrifice it, in fome Meafure, 
for the Sake of his Religion ; the French King, though 
of the fame Religion, and pretending to be as zealous for 
it as King James,, made ufe of it as a Colour to promote 
his own ambitious Defigns, and the Trade of his Subje6ts 
at our Expence. I know that this is a delicate Subjed; to 
handle, and I fhould not have mentioned it all, but from 
a jiid Senfe of its Confequence, and a lincere Love for 
Truth, and the Intered of my Country. 
The French,, in the Beginning of King James's Reign, 
f nding their Colony of Canada in the utmod Danger from 
the^ Iroquois,, a very warlike Indian Nation, jealous of 
their Liberties, and very capable of defending them by 
Force of Arms, refolved, fmee Force had hitherto failed, 
to try what might be done towards fubduing them by the 
gentler Method of Converfion ; in order to which they 
not only employed a Multitude of artful Jefuits, but con- 
trived likewife, under Pretence of extending the Chridian 
Fa.ith, to engage King James to countenance and affid 
this Projed:. In order to this an Irijh Gentleman, Colo- 
nel Pungan, Son to the Earl of limerick, was made Go- 
vernor oiNew York-, and he was dired:ed, byhisMader, 
i to permit the French Jefuits to preach to, and convert, the 
Indians under the Protediion of his Government. The 
■ Scheme was certainly well laid, and one would wonder 
' how it came not to take effed: ; which if it had done, 
mud have proved the Ruin of that Colony at lead, the 
' Cpi^qued of which had been for a long Time the Objed: 
of the French Policy. But this Colonel Dungan, unfor- 
tunately for the French, was a Man of very good Senfe, 
and of drid: Honour j he obeyed his Mafter’s Commands, 
though unwiliingly^ but he kept fo ftrid: an Eye upon 
the Dench Jefuits, that he very foon faw to the Bottom 
a finding them incompatible with 
the Welfare of the Colony he governed, he obliged them 
to retire ; telling them that they came to promote the 
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Commerce, rather than the Religion of their Nation % 
and that if his good PAiends the Indians were fo much 
in love with Jefuits, that they could not be without them, 
he would fupply them with thofe who ffiould make them 
good Chrijiians and good Englijhmen at the fame Time. 
This greatly provoked the French Governor of Canada^ 
Mr. Benonvilky who threatened him with the Difpleafure 
of his own Mader, and of the Mofl Chrijtian King •, but 
this had no Effed; upon Colonel Dungan, who would not 
be either cheated or bullied*, and therefore when the 
French Governor had trapanned fome of the Indian Chiefs, 
and fent them over to be made Slaves in the French Gal- 
leys, by the mod notorious Breach of Faith that ever Mail 
was guilty of ; the Colonel affided them in the War occa- 
fioned thereby, which brought the French Colony within 
a Hair’s Breadth of Ruin. This Story, which is very re- 
markable, we have from French as well as Englifh Authors, 
and which is no lefs extraordinary, they agree in every 
Circumdance of it. Only the former are fo partial, as to 
treat the Colonel’s Charadier very ill, becaufe he would 
not facrifice the Intered of his Country, his own Honour, 
and Confcience to their Views., After the Revolution, 
when he was become Earl of Limerick, King William, who 
was very well informed of his Proceedings, procured an 
Offer to be made him of a very Confiderable Command 
in the Spanifl Service, but he declined it *, and though 
he liked not the Meafures, chofe to follow the Fortunes, 
of his M after King James, , 
The French, by the fame kind of Artifices had very 
near clifpoffeffed the Hudfon's Bay Company of that Coun- 
try entirely ; and, as foon as the War broke out, they 
abtually did fo, as we have already ffiewn. They alfo 
made a bold Attempt upon the Colony of New York,, 
with the Affiftance of the Indians in their Interefts, but 
were repulfed •, and Colonel Peter Schuyler, with three 
hundred Englifh, and the fame Number of Iroquois, 
bravely marched from Fort Albany to Fly.ehec, which is 
tour hundred Miles ; and finding the French Governor 
with feven hundred regular Troops, and as many Hu-^ 
rons, an Indian Nation always at their Devotion in the 
Field, they boldly attacked them, and killed three hun- 
dred Men, and thirty Officers, with very little Lofs to 
themfelves ; but having no Artillery, and the French re- 
tiring into their Forts, the Colonel made a very honour- 
able Retreat, fatisfied with the Blow he had ftruck, and 
fecuring his own Country from any farther Depredations, 
But it was not only on this Side that the French attacked 
our Colonies at that Time, on the contrary they had 
framed a Defign of greater Confequence againft the Peo- 
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